Russian Crisis Coming.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 9 July 1918, Page 3

Russian Crisis Coming.

Sensational Events. UKRAINE PEASANT AKMY. CZECHOSLOVAKS IX SIBERIA. [ELECTRIC TBLEGItAI'H—COPYItIGHT. ] 'PUR PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Received this day at ll. ; iO a.m. Washington, July 8. The newspapers give prominence to week-end reports of a sensational series of events in Russia. It is believed a great crisis is rapidly approaching. Petrograd reports indicate that the Ukraine revolt is growing. The bourgeoisie are alarmed because the Germans are withdrawing and refusing to give buttle. Only 30,000 troops are available in the Ifieff region and I hey arc urgently demanding reinforcements. It is stated that the total peasant troops 'number 200,000, whereof 75,000 are well-equipped and efficiently officered. They are advancing from the Fastov railway junction to Iveiff, forty miles northeast. The communications between KeifE and Odessa are cut. The Ukrainian Government has ordered the restitution of lands to their former owners, promising a complete scheme of agrarian reforms. The Daily" Express Tokio correspondent reports that despite the Vladivostock Soviets' elaborate measures to resist the Czecho-Slo-vaks, the latter under the young Itusian general Dmiterio, formerly Vukhovitch's Chief of Staff, easily dispossessed the Bolsheviks of their arms and ammunition. The Czeclio-Slovaks in the Far East are cut off from, their comrades in Western Siberia, but developments suggest that they will soon jointly control the • TransSiberian railway. The Czeclio-Slovak movement is entirely spontaneous and may prove the rallying point for the Siberian party of order and may lead to a natural and satisfactory solution of the problem.

America To Russia's Rescue. HEADS MOVE TO RESTORE ORDER. Received this day, 9.5 a .■'in. ' New York, July ft. It is authoritatively stated that the United States sends to Russia an economic mission supported by a police force of inter-Allied troops to establish order. Vengeance. RUSSIANS STRIKE DOWN GERMAN OPPRESSOR. Received this day, 8.50 a.m. Paris, -Txily 8. Kerensky, inferring to the assasination of General Mirbacli, the German Ambassador in Moscow, said while he deplored tlie taking of human life he was glad Mirbaeh had been killed. His death would be a goot?' thing for Russia. It may mark the beginning of her renaissance and may initiate a movement in Moscow against Germany. The Germans were now certain to occupy Moscow. Mirbacli was the real ruler of Russia and got on well with Lenin and Trotsky. Received this day, 12.55 a.m. A German expedition to Moscow is anticipated as a result of Mirbacli's murder.

Bolshevik Garages. MITE-DEII, LUST AND GREED Beceived this day, 12.55 a-m. I'ekin, July 8. Russian consuls in Chinese Turkestan describe the wa-nton savagery and ruthless greed of the armed Bolsheviks who are over-run-ing Central Asia. They sent an expedition to Bokhara ostensibly to enforce reforms, but they seized £4,000,000 from the Stale Bank, looted and destroyed the town, shot peasants working' in the fields and violated women. La tod they invaded Semi lochia and it is reported they murdered thousands of Chinese. Some Cossacks assembled in Northern Seinirochia are resisting and appealing to the Allies for assistance. MUEMAN JOINS ALLIES. Beceived this day, 8.50 a.m. Copenhagen, July 8. The Tidenstegn states that the whole Murman (North Russia) population has broken off from B ussia a,ncT joined the Entente. Provisions have arrived in Murnonn from America. Mixed Hun Politics. BFLOW MAY EETI'RN. Beceived this day, ]0.-'{() a.m. London, July 8. The Daily Telegraph's llotterda m correspondent says Knhlmann lias proceeded to headquarters. There is good reason to believe important Government changes " are pending, including Count von Bulow's return to the Chancellorship (which post he held for many years). TURKEY'S MODEST DEMAND Beceived this day, 8.50 a.m. Amsterdam, July 8. Turkish newspapers demand that the Russian Black Sea Fleet be handed over to Turkey.